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No. 240,212. Patentecl April 12,1881.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

sAMoEL M. WILKEs AND WILLIAM H. HYER, or STAUNTON, VIRGINIA.

BED-LOUNGE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 240,212, dated April 12, 1881. v Application filed October 4, 1880. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern Be it known that we, SAMUEL M. WILKES and WILLIAM H. HYER, of Staunton, in the county of Augusta. and State of Virginia, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Bed-Lounges; and we do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same.

Our invention has for its object to provide a bed-lounge having a seat or bottom which shall be adapted for reversal, so that it may be conveniently and quickly adjusted with the mattress side uppermost, thus temporarily converting the lounge into a bed. To this end thehead of the bed or bottom is swiveled to a bifurcated support formed of a metal rod, whose ends are pivoted in the sides of the frame of the lounge, so that by drawing the seat back from the head of the lounge it willbe raised on such support, and may then be reversed, as required.

A subsidiary feature of the invention is the provision of slots in the frame of the lounge, to allow longitudinal movement of the seatsupport and seat, so that the latter may be drawn back to free its head from the overhanging portion of the arm before the seat begins to rise into the position required to enable it to be reversed.

In the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, Figure 1 is a front View of our improved bedlounge, part of the frame being broken away to show the interior construction and arrangement of parts. Fig. 2 is a cross-sectional view, showing the loungeseat raised and partly reversed. Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the seat detached.

The frame A of the lounge is constructed, mainly, in the usual manner. The seat B is upholstered on one side, a, corresponding to the arm b and back b of the lounge, and on the other side, a, canvas is stretched over the springs, to adapt it for use as a mattress. The head of the seat B is swiveled to the angle of a V-shaped or bent rod, 0, by means of a metal plate, d, that is attached to the seat by a screw or other suitable device, so that the plate will turn on the pivot in the reversing movement of the seat B. The ends of the rod 0 are bent laterally, to adapt them to enter keepers or lengthwise slots 0, attached to or formed in the inner sides of the lounge-frame,

a short distance from the arm b.

When the seat B is placed, as shown in Fig. 1, with its hard side a uppermost, theloungeis adapted for use as such; but by drawing the seat back from the arm b until the rod 0 rises to a vertical position, Fig. 2, it may be easily rotated on its swivel-joint to bring the mattress side 0 uppermost, as shown in Fig. 3, and thus, when lowered to its place, adapt the lounge to serve as a bed. In such operation the ends of the rod or seat support 0 slide in their confining keepers or slots 0 until the head of the seat is free from the overhanging portion of the arm I), and in replacing the seat said keepers or slots allow the ends of the rod to slide back, so that the seat assumesits original position, as shown in Fig. 1.

The foot end of the lounge-frame is cut out, to allow the seat to project beyond it; but this construction is not necessary, unless the arm or head of the lounge projects over the seat as shown.

We are aware reversible chair-seats have been attached to arms or rods pivoted to the frame, and we do not therefore claim, broadly, the reversal of a furniture seat or bottom by aid of pivoted supports; but

What we do claim is- 1. The combination, with a lounge-frame,

and seat adapted to be supported thereon, of a bifurcated support and a plate orlink which is pivoted to and connects the ends of said seat and support, substantially as shown and described.

2. In combination with the arm I) of the sofa having the overhanging portion, the seat 13, and the bifurcated hinge-support O, the lounge-frame having lengthwise slots in its inner sides to receive the ends of such support, and the plate d, pivoted to the end of the seat and thus forming a swiveled connection between it and the support, all as shown and described, for the purpose specified.

SAMUEL M. WILKES. WILLIAM H. HYER. 

